Fair enough.
But reading thru his dossier, Esther is so careful, reliable, risk-adverse, predictable, and she prefers to keep in very frequent contact. She always lets them know her route.
But NOW he knows that route actually DID have good cell service. Yet no calls, texts, social media.
Either she didn’t get that far for some reason, or she was behaving quite out of her pattern and just not checking. Most of us who like frequent contact, would certainly be checking frequently to see if service improved.
So shouldn’t we assume that whatever happened, happened quickly, and in that area where she could not make contact.
Parts of the route had wifi, but the Refuge de Venasque does not have wifi.
She had no wifi as she hiked to the refuge, and she had to sign-in when she arrived. Given that she is an experienced hiker who spent the last 6 years benefitting from the refuges, she would have signed in and paid.
There's no evidence that she was at the refuge - did not sign in or pay.
That reduces the area of accident to the route down the mountain from the summit to the refuge.
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